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ELOY, Ariz. (AP) - Two skydivers were killed Tuesday after they collided during a jump over southern Arizona, collapsing their parachutes and sending them plummeting to the ground, authorities said.
Witnesses told investigators that both skydivers had open canopies when they ran into each other about 200 to 300 feet above the ground, said Sgt. Brian Jerome, an Eloy police spokesman. Their canopies collapsed and they fell to the ground around 4:50 p.m., Jerome said in a news release.
One of the skydivers was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. The other was taken to Casa Grande Regional Medical Center and pronounced dead there.
A third skydiver was injured, but police said the injury "was not related to or caused by" the collision. The injuries were not believed to be serious, Jerome said.
The cause of the collision was under investigation. Police have not yet released names of any of the people who were involved.
The collision occurred at Skydive Arizona, a training facility that operates out of the Eloy Municipal Airport, about 60 miles south of Phoenix. Its website says it's the largest drop zone in the world, for skydivers of all skill levels.
Dozens of women gathered at the site Saturday to break the world record for an all-female mass-formation jump.
Nancy Koreen, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Parachute Association, said 63 women made up the formation, all of them flying upside down with their heads down. The previous record was a 41-woman formation.
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PISCATAWAY, N.J. – Even Larry Brown had no idea how his SMU team would play after being ranked for the first time in 29 years.
The veteran coach needn't have worried.
Nic Moore scored 16 of his 21 points in the second half, Nick Russell added 16 points and the No. 23 Mustangs prevailed 77-65 over Rutgers on Friday night to earn their first win as a ranked team since the 1984-85 season
"These are all learning experiences for us," Brown said. "We talked about it. We haven't been there before. It's a growing process, but I thought we responded great."
SMU (20-5, 9-3 American Athletic Conference) reached the 20-win plateau for just the second time in 13 years.
"I feel like we played together, played through adversity when things got tough, and just fought it out," said Moore, who was 5 of 9 from 3-point range to help SMU shoot 8 for 18 from beyond the arc. "I feel like earlier in the season we might not have overcome this type of (environment), but now we know what we have to do to pull out a game like this."
The Mustangs led for the game's final 32 minutes to win their fourth straight and for the ninth time in 10 games. SMU held Rutgers without a field goal over the final 6:17 of the first half and went into halftime with a 36-29 lead.
The Scarlet Knights used a 7-0 run to rally within 41-40 with 15 minutes to play, but Moore drilled three 3-pointers during a 14-2 run to extend the Mustangs' advantage to 12.
Myles Mack had 17 points and Kadeem Jack scored 15 for the Scarlet Knights (10-15, 4-8), who never got within six points over the final 13 minutes.
"I really didn't have a problem with the way we played tonight," said Rutgers coach Eddie Jordan, whose team lost 70-56 to SMU in Dallas on Jan. 21. "I thought we had terrific effort, we shared the basketball, we played the game plan for the most part, but there was some breakdowns, some missed assignments. But for 40 minutes we stayed together, we shared the game and we just played against a good team that's on a good roll right now."
SMU, which ranks second nationally in field-goal percentage defense, was outscored 32-30 in the paint but held Rutgers to 3-for-14 shooting from beyond the arc. The Mustangs' reserves outscored their Rutgers counterparts 23-16, with Cannen Cunningham scoring 10 points on 5-for-9 shooting.
"For the most part, we got the ball inside, we got good shots and we missed them," Jordan said. "Those things have to click against the best defensive team in the conference."
While the Mustangs are unblemished at home this season, they came in having dropped two of their previous four games on the road. But after the game scheduled for Thursday night was pushed back a day by the storm that blanketed the Northeast with snow, Brown had his team practice in the RAC to get familiar with the environment.
"(Rutgers) has had some great teams come in here, I'm sure they were not intimidated by anybody," Brown said. "We didn't handle our last experience in a game, maybe we were supposed to win, and I don't mean that disrespectfully to Rutgers. But most people would think with their record and our record we were supposed to win. Rutgers is capable of beating anybody, but we got a win. It wasn't an easy trip, sitting in the hotel. . I thought we showed a lot tonight. I'm proud of them."
After saluting his team in the locker room, Brown had to walk to the other side of the arena to hold his postgame press conference. As he entered the media room, he quipped, "Thank God we won because that would've been the longest walk of my life."
While he enjoyed the season sweep of Rutgers, Brown quickly looked ahead to a short trip to Philadelphia, where his team will meet Temple on Sunday afternoon.
"I am happy I am coaching," said Brown, a veteran of four decades of coaching in college and the NBA. "I am 73 years old and I am allowed to do something I love. I get to be around the kids and great coaches sitting next to me. I didn't handle retirement well. I am not ready to go to Florida. I am loving what I am doing. My son is my roommate. It doesn't get much better than that."


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On August 23, 2012, the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills celebrated the filming of the 10,000th episode of THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS with a panel discussion featuring members of the cast following by a Q&A session. The evening was hosted by Brooks Barnes of The New York Times and the panel consisted of longtime cast members Peter Bergman, Eric Braeden, Jeanne Cooper, Doug Davidson, Christian Leblanc, Joshua Morrow, Melody Thomas Scott, Kristoff St. John, Michelle Stafford, and recently departed head writer and executive producer Maria Arena Bell.
The evening opened with a montage of clips from the show's long history, starting with scenes from episode #1 and other 1970s episodes featuring actors such as Diedre Hall, Robert Clary, William Gray Espy, David Hasselhoff and Brenda Dickson (although, oddly, no scenes featuring any of the "Brooks" sisters, the pivotal heroines of the show's early years) up through scenes from recent years. When told by an audience member that the clips brought tears to her eyes, Christian Leblanc remarked "we were sniffling too."
Moderator Barnes confessed that he was a longtime fan of the show, and posed a series of questions to the panel about the show and their experiences working on it.
On the what makes Y&R stand out and has made it an enduring success, Peter Bergman remarked: "Continuity. When you turn on Y&R, you know who you are going to see."
Barnes asked Jeanne Cooper about "Kay's" tendency to gaze out and rub her fingers together during scenes. Cooper admitted she was usually thinking "What is my next line?" to laughter from the audience. On the show's faster past compared to earlier days, she commented that "You pick up a script and wonder what the hell happened yesterday" and emphasized that the actors really had to pay attention to what was going on with each other's characters or you'd "lose part of your own character."
Eric Braeden emphatically wanted to "dispel the myth that [the actors] have influence about the writers write. . . .We simply don't." Although he said "sometimes we make little changes," he quickly added "I never do," to the eye-rolling of his cast mates and the laughter of the capacity audience, some of whom travelled from as far as Toronto, Canada, and Texas to attend the event. Braeden confessed he'd been "mostly very happy" with what he'd been given over the last 32 years.
When asked what she's like to have happen to Nikki, Melody Thomas Scott said she's like to see her "go stark raving mad – in the nuthouse – I've never made it out there" or have Nikki get drunk. Barnes asked Melody if she could recall all of Nikki's last names, and Melody eventually got there with the help of the audience and her castmates. Cooper chimed in "she's quite a whore!"
Josh Morrow identified Peter Bergman and Eric Braeden as his mentors when he started the show and confessed he was the "set clown," although he tries to act very professional and serious around the younger cast members given the importance of getting each scene in one take. Melody Thomas Scott noted that the cast does goof around a bit in rehearsal, because once the camera turns on, you have to become very emotional immediately, and the levity breaks the tension. Morrow added that the cast really does laugh all day, and suggested that there should be a "show within a show" because of all the hysterical things that happen on set. Eric Braeden agreed: "I wish they'd film the rehearsals; silly, lewd jokes, then you can be serious."
Michelle Stafford explained that she loved playing Phyllis because "she's always different, she's different every single day, and there are always aspects of crazy about her . . . she seems to be strong, but she's really not, there's lots of bravado." To which Josh Morrow added "she also likes to have sex." As the audience laughed, Stafford commented quickly "She does. She's quite good at it. She's a lot better than I am."
Kristoff St. John offered what he wished for his character: "I wish that I were Victor Newman. I wish I could be Paul's partner because he can't figure anything out. I wish I could sleep with Phyllis (the character). I wish I had Peter Bergman's hair and that [Jack] would adopt me. I wish I could have seen [Nikki] strip."
Braeden took a moment to remind the crowd that they shot one episode per day, as opposed to the 8 to 10 days it took to shoot one primetime hour drama or three to four months to shoot a feature film. "We barely rehearse, just a technical rehearsal for the cameras. You have to come in prepared and do it." This prompted Jeanne Cooper to recall the time when film star Dorothy McGuire came in to play Victor's mother, and she said to Jeanne "How do you do it? I will never do this again."
Somehow, Josh Morrow manages to drop the word "reliquary" into the conversation, and Melody Thomas Scott scolds him "you are never to say that word again!" Josh kiddingly states that he did some of his best work as an actor during that notorious storyline, recalling one day when he could not stop from laughing during a scene with Amelia Henlie and had tears running down his face. "I thought I was going to get fired that day."
Christian Leblanc described some of his favorite moments on the show as "Greg Rikkart walking in and saying 'Hello brother,' marrying Lauren and thinking Lauren was dead." He's also really enjoying working with newcomers Jen Landon and Jeff Branson.
The moderator asked all of the actors what they thought it would take to keep the show on for another 10,000 episodes.
Braeden: "We have some wonderful actors, we just have to keep the ratings up."
Stafford: "If you tell a good story, people will watch."
Leblanc: "As actors, you have to believe what you are doing is an amazing thing – people respond to that."
Cooper: "They want a story they can identify with. The audience is thinking 'let me frigging escape for an hour a day.'"
Among those in the audience for the event were Kate Linder (Esther), the entire Bell family, and former cast member Robert Leighton (Casey) who, during the audience Q&A period, stood up and asked Melody Thomas Scott "Nikki, do you miss your sister?" Melody replied "give me your number!"
When asked about the family aspect of the show, Peter Bergman, talking about the actors who played the Abbots, noted "what a great group we had . . . everyone was eccentric in their own way . . . I'm a huge Eileen Davidson fan, she's my sister forever."
The evening ended on a bittersweet note, with recently ousted headwriter Maria Arena Bell noting that leaving the show was a "very, very tough thing to do" but adding that, like every good soap opera story, "I got killed off." She praised her late father-in-law, Y&R creator Bill Bell, stating that "he was my mentor, and I was his legacy." She was proud to have written the show's 10,000th episode, promising that it was full of "ramifications and fallout" for all the actors on the stage.
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The Tangled Hedge
A hedge-hopping awenydd follows the Mother of Life's trackways and brings back what is needed, connecting the village with the numinous wilds.
The Apache Sunrise Dance
I am majoring in Anthropology, and this semester I'm taking a couple of classes on Native American history and one on the anthropology of religion, which all go together rather nicely, and I'm having fun because it's all right in my wheelhouse, as an animistic Pagan Hedge Witch and lover of culture, especially indigenous and ancient cultures.
I have just watched a video in class about the Apache Sunrise Ceremony, a women's coming of age rite. The women's rite has much importance to their people, and it incorporates the sacred myth of White-Painted Woman (also known as Changing Woman or White-Shell Woman.) My teacher pointed out that Changing Woman's name points to the menstrual cycle. He also talked about indigenous women having more power in the tribe than people from Patriarchal western culture expect, since they are often the ones running the village while the men are out hunting and fishing. My teacher is married to an Apache woman, so he knows a lot about their culture.
I was struck by how physical the ritual of the Sunrise Dance is. We don't often think of physical strength and endurance as a feminine trait, but the Apaches (and other Southwestern tribes) do. The girl who has just reached menarche will dance for days with little rest, and run in the four sacred directions, and must refrain from crying throughout the days-long rite. By the end her godmother helps her make the movements of the dance, and she must stand from sitting position with only the help of two eagle feathers. She will be very proud to accomplish all this, and it gives a great self-esteem boost, and she receives esteem and blessings from her community. She is seen as strong enough to be a woman, now.
Zuni girls are apparently quite the runners, and Southwestern college athletics often have superb women's track teams, thanks to the Native women who have run since childhood. I'm not sure about the boys, because my teacher didn't talk much about them, only saying that the U.S. government has suppressed the men's rites to discourage the warrior culture.
I found the Mountain Gods or Mountain Spirits and the Crown Dancers who invoke and embody them very intriguing. Four Mountain Spirits and a Sacred Clown or Trickster figure dance at some point during the rite, and they look magnificent and otherworldly! They are masked with eerie-looking cloth-wrappings and wear tall wooden headdresses, making an impressive guising that would certainly awe me. (This article has some great pictures and more information. You can also see videos on YouTube.)
Another thing that intrigued me was the use of cattail pollen for blessing and using in the paint that the girl is painted with, as well as the poles or trees that form a structure in the center of the field of the ritual. As someone interested in ethnobotany, I want to learn more about those and the meanings of these plants in their culture. The video mentioned fecundity, and in class someone said that every part of the cattail plant is edible.
I found all of this so interesting that I wanted to share it here, since it happens to also be relevant to the SageWoman Blogs' focus on Goddess and women's spirituality. Perhaps others will be intrigued and want to learn more, too. I'd be happy to hear what you learn if you research it, or if you happen to know more.
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HOBOKEN — At a planning meeting Wednesday, Mayor Dawn Zimmer and other city officials continued discussions of Sandy recovery.
The city has a four-page list of buildings that have not restored power, which leaves close to 1,000 residents in the dark. This is largely, but not fully, due to internal building issues, officials said. However, some of the blocks still need the help of PSE&G.
"We are not through the crisis mode until all of these buildings are powered up," said Mayor Zimmer.
The mayor said she may propose either a state or local requirement for senior buildings to have generators that are raised off the floor, in case of flooding.
Zimmer explained that some of these seniors have been without lighted hallways and exit signs and have suffered falls due to this.
Displaced seniors who were taking shelter at the Wallace school have been moved to Hoboken's hospital due to the heating issues, while non-seniors were transported to a shelter in Union City.
Planet Fitness will be offering their showers to those displaced by the storm with a photo I.D. Efforts to involve other gyms will continue.
A FEMA representative reported that the snowfall of tonight's storm is not expected to do any damage to Hoboken and that rains tomorrow should wipe out the snowfall. In the event that anyone still needs shelter or heat, the mayor will be working today to inquire if another shelter needs to be implemented in town.
The city has partnered with the Hoboken Rotary Club and others to start RebuildHoboken.org in order to gather donations for recovering from the storm.
The regularly scheduled City Council meeting is being postponed until next Tuesday both due to weather and also a resolution that needs to be passed by Tuesday in order to push the deadline for residents to pay taxes.
Also on Tuesday, emergency parking passes will be issued in order to allow state workers access to buildings.
For more details, watch hudsonreporter.com and check out this weekend's print edition of the Reporter newspaper.


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Lewiston Has No Lobsters…But this Maine City has other great things to enjoy
By Jack Dunphy
We were biking a country road on a heartbreakingly gorgeous May morning with Phil Savignano, who spends his days in the state capital, Augusta helping to promote the Great state of Maine. "People without lobsters," is how he described much of his state.
"I like to represent those places that don't get as much attention," he told us, as we pedaled past woodlots, pretty vistas, and busy dairy farms. Lewiston is a perfect place to begin our tour of the Rest of Maine, unheralded yet full of optimists and big dreamers.
While Lewiston/Auburn is a combined city of some 84,000 it has a small town feel. Everyone we talked to seemed to know of or know about everyone we had met or were planning on meeting.
70 Pairs
"Maine is my gym," Phil continued, showing off his collection of more than 70 pairs of skis next to a fleet of bikes in his rambling country home near the town's lake. It was clear that we had met a 62-year-old who could still out ski and out bike most of his younger peers.
Why Lewiston? We chose this small city because it's not hip and shiny Portland, and it's not Kennebunkport, made famous as the Bush dynasty's summer home. It's not on the coast, and it's not a place filled with tourists. But Lewiston and its neighbor, Auburn across the river proved to be interesting places with lots to see and do.
There are about 84,000 residents in the two cities of Lewiston and Auburn. In recent years this number has grown with a lot of immigration. About ten years ago, a wave began bringing immigrants from Somalia to settle in Lewiston. Today there are about 3,000 Africans living here, and they have carved out a part of the city to call their own.
Brightly Colored Garb
The younger American residents here have no issues with the very different Somalis. The women wear brightly colored head-to-toe garb and many of the men can be seen chatting in groups and patronizing a section of Lisbon Street dotted with halal meat sellers, phone card stores and other shops catering to this significant African population.
Many people told us that Somali children do very well in school and that most of the immigrants are no longer dependent on welfare. Like so many other immigrants who have come to this inland city, The Irish, the French Canadians, and the Italians, they have made their own mark and done well.
Lewiston and Auburn (known as L-A) are lined with gigantic brick mills, that once housed a majority of the shoe making and textile production in the US. Today many of the mills are gone, but many others are in the process of being renovated and turned into offices and other businesses.
TD Bank has taken over a large chunk of one mill and a fine restaurant, Fishbones, has been built in another. One of the biggest mills, called Bates Mill #5, is a favorite subject of debate and conjecture for many in the city.
Gabriella's Vision
A group called Grow LA, headed by a young architect named Gabriella Russell is looking for partners so they can transform this 365,000 square foot building into a two-level solar greenhouse and server farm. They are open to other ideas but these are what the current plan looks like.
To get an idea of the history here, we toured the Museum L-A, with its effusive Executive Director, Rachel Delbrossiereiur. One of the first things she pointed to was a depiction of a the museum's new home, on a tract of land by the river that will be built in the years ahead. Today the museum houses equipment once used to make bedspreads, and visitors can see each stage of the process from start to finish.
LA Museum
It was obvious from the start Rachel holds a passion for her LA Museum. It soon became apparent why. Rachel, of French Canadian heritage, took us into a back room, past an "employees only" sign. Looking a bit like a giant dinosaur sat a colossal mechanical loom.
Her father, she said, operated that very loom for over 30 years. He mastered the art of weaving beautiful fabric into bedspreads and he mastered the mechanics of operating this huge and complex piece of machinery- all the while never learning to speak English.
She said that very loom will be moved to the new museum site. It looks somewhat like an organ but 20 or maybe 50 times larger and 100 times heavier. We asked how will they ever move it out of this mill? The answer as if it was obvious: take down the massive brick wall, use a giant crane and lower it from the 2nd floor to a waiting platform truck. I thought to myself: Now that is why we have earmarks in Congress.
We enjoyed a very special dinner at the classy restaurant on Lisbon Street called Fuel. Our waitress could not have been nicer. She told us about her love for Lewiston, her new romance (the love of her life) and her proud heritage (Mic Mac Indian).
We enjoyed talking to her so much I almost didn't care about the food. But the lamb shank melted in my mouth and the wine she recommended was a perfect match. The owner of Fuel, Eric Angren, sat down with us. He gave us an exciting account of the improvements and real estate investments pouring into Lewiston.
He is an early and continuing pioneer in revitalizing this small but vibrant city. We asked him what properties he renovated and he said, "I'll show you one; let's go upstairs." He took us to a condo in the building he recently sold. It was fit for a king and queen.
-4,000 square feet of top of the line quality with a huge living room, 30-foot-high ceilings with skylights, gorgeous woodwork, a kitchen with huge granite island, a private elevator– and all at a fraction of the price a similar condo (if you could find a similar condo as this one is unique) might sell 40 minutes down the road in Portland.
Biking to a Farm
The next morning we jumped onto our bikes for a pleasant seven-mile bicycle ride to Nezinscot farm, in Turner. Part of an old farm outbuilding was transformed into a rustic lunch spot. All our food was fresh from the farm all around us, and delicious as we sat outside and looked over the pastoral view.
She told us that the price of feed for her cows doubled from last year but the wholesale price she receives for milk remained the same. She said many of the remaining dairy farms in Maine cannot survive and will fold this year.
She is trying to keep her farm operating but it is tough. When we left her to her many chores we felt if anyone can make it through these tough times it is Gloria Varney and we will check back on her next year.
After lunch, we walked about the farm to peak in on some of the animals who peeked back: cows, goats, horses, donkeys, and some other animals this city kid couldn't name. We stumbled into the farm owner, Gloria Varney. Despite the rigors of running a restaurant, a gift shop, a large working dairy farm, raising 4 kids and who knows what else she happily took the time to chat.
The Basilica
One cannot help but notice from almost any vantage point in Lewiston the twin spires of the Peter Paul Basilica. The Basilica looks like a cathedral in France. We had to investigate. We learned from a local that it seats 10,000 people!
It is the French Canadian church. It was built in the depression and money was collected for it by volunteers knocking on doors in the French section with small buckets asking for a dime– hence the origin of the charity March of Dimes.
We tried the massive front doors to gain entry. All were locked. However, we spied an elderly couple, speaking French, exiting a side door. We snuck in and climbed the stairs into the huge cathedral. Truly astounding to see. Breathtaking lighting streaming thru hundreds of blue stained glass windows.
We had the cathedral to ourselves. We climbed up to the 2nd floor and looked out from the organist viewpoint. Next, we saw a ladder headed up into parts unknown. Feeling a little guilty and a lot inquisitive we climbed. One flight up to a small concrete landing. Two flights. Another deck.
Three flights up and we were in a room with huge cathedral bells. Knowing we might have a hard time explaining our presence to the police, or worse, a priest, we descended and escaped out our secret exit.
Lewiston's Brews
Before dinner on Thursday, we popped into one of two downtown craft brew houses in town. Chris at Baxter Brewing, located in one of the rehabbed mill buildings, spoke highly of the brewery's belief in the eco-friendliness of cans. Their brews were tasty and the cans do a good job protecting their contents!
After all the climbing and excitement our stomachs demanded attention. So off to a highly esteemed restaurant called Fishbones located in the Bates Mill. We loved this place! Ambiance- great.
Open floor plan in a beautifully restored mill space with huge beams and great woodwork throughout. Our table by the window looked out onto the canal. Another delightful waitress.
We told her what we had been doing and who we met and she knew everyone we knew and recommended a few people we should still meet. We said we were going to Guthries after dinner to listen to music and she told us to say hello to her son who works there.
Paddling with the Mayor
We told her we were having breakfast the next morning with Mayor Jonathon Labonte of Auburn. Of course, she knew him too. She recommended a great wine and told us her secret ambition is to open a wine store. She was a delight and the food was Maine seafood off the boat that day and cooked to mouth-watering perfection. A lobster stripped out of its shell and piled high. Classic!
She Doesn't Like Guthries
After dinner let the Lewiston nightlife begin! Guthries is a small club with an intimate and cozy atmosphere. Depending on the night one can hear and see performers offering jazz, country, folk or some combination.
Our entertainer was the most attractive young and talented Caroline Cotter from Portland on guitar and singing her original songs. Between sets somehow we started a conversation with her and she graciously sat down with us.
She told us stories of her living in Thailand and many other places — a true world traveler and curious about everything. Caroline and her girlfriend who also joined us gave us one more example of Lewiston hospitality.
The next morning it was off to meet the Mayor of Auburn, Jonathon Labonte. We joined him at a genuine French Canadian breakfast spot Remie's for some blueberry crepes. Jonathon is the youngest mayor in Auburn history. Keep an eye on him- we saw a future big name politician in the making.
He paid for our breakfast and we can't even vote for him (yet). He told us one of his many goals for the city is to improve bus and train service to Portland. He wants some of the young high tech workers of Portland to live in LA where housing is at least 30% less expensive.
The best part was after breakfast. Jonathon had set up three kayaks for us on the Androscoggin River, a half a block away from the restaurant. The three of us set off and paddled up river past old mills and new hotels and people enjoying the bike path. Jonathon all the while filling in details on our sights. I could not help but notice something missing along the riverbank – no trash!
In fact in the LA city our whole time I barely saw a gum wrapper anywhere. We paddled up to the Falls and turned around for a leisurely float back to our start point. What fun for us this mayor, so enthusiastic about LA and its renaissance, took the time to bring us on a scenic paddling adventure.
About halfway between Lewiston and Portland in New Gloucester, we discovered a most inviting place: Pineland Farms. This nonprofit farm offers so much to the visitor: an excellent luncheon spot, an elaborate gift shop, miles of hiking, mountain biking, and cross country ski trails, all sorts of barns and animals to investigate (cows, chickens etc. cheese making, workshops on farm things (ice cream making, butter making) and lots of activities for kids.
Our guide milked a cow for us and let us try it – we declined. She told us of the fascinating history of the place (former mental hospital) and how as an abandoned and deteriorating place along came a patron with deep pockets: the ex-wife of Robert Noyce, the inventor of the transistor and founder of Intel.
She spread the vision and had the money to make a top quality destination offering something or several things of interest to any visitor.
Everyone was pretty much on the same positive page about the cities, and what it would take to keep making them better.
"What about those Somali's," we asked? "Oh their kids are trying so hard in school and doing so well they are in inspiration to all the other students." But what about their shops on Lisbon Street? They look kind of funny selling Somali food and cell phones and stuff?
"You should have seen the area before" came the reply. They have fixed up all those buildings." "Didn't they all come over here and get on welfare?" "Maybe, but not now. Between the jobs they have and the jobs they have created they add so much to the vitality of LA" we heard.
At Fishbones we asked about Fusion Restaurant. "I bet you were not happy when they opened. Who wants that competition?" "Oh no," came the reply. "Eric does such a great job. The two top tier restaurants in town bring in more patrons and we both benefit. We hope another will open."
Do the Irish immigrants fight with the French Canadians? Are the Italians mad at anyone?" "Maybe 50 years ago but we all get along now." I was getting frustrated. "That young mayor Jonathon can't really know what he is doing. Any good scandals?" "He seems to be doing a great job so far" came the retort.
Surely the Lewiston football team must hate the Auburn players? "We have a great rivalry for sure. But we respect each other." So we left the city, impressed with the revitalization of the mills and canals and especially the people. So many cultures and different peoples all mixed together but getting along happily and with mutual respect. A lesson for all of us.
Find out more about Maine at visit maine.com
Lewiston fact file: Rent bikes at Roy's Bicycle Shop, nice people, high-quality bikes. 75 Farwell St. 207-783-9090
Fuel Restaurant: French high style, nice atmosphere 49 Lisbon St. 207-333-3835
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Adapted from The New Jewish Table by Ellen Kassoff Gray and Todd Gray
Todd: We like to use red bliss potatoes because they are less starchy than russets or Idahos, and therefore caramelize well, so they lend themselves perfectly to roasting You can substitute with low-starch potatoes, like Yukon Golds or fingerlings. Cloves of garlic cooked in their skins add an interesting element to the dish (if you peel them, they would burn). If you press down on the sides of them with the side of your forks, the flesh should pop out easily. Eating a bit of roasted garlic with each bite of potato is just a delight.
1 pound Red Bliss new potatoes
1/2 cup canola oil
12 whole garlic cloves, in their skins
1 tablespoon unsalted butter or olive oil
1/2 teaspoon salt
Pinch of freshly ground black pepper
2 large sprigs fresh rosemary, broken into 3-inch pieces
Blanch the potatoes. Preheat the oven to 325°F. Bring a large pot of salted water to boiling over high heat. Meanwhile, cut the potatoes into quarters. Drop the potatoes into the boiling water and cook for 3 to 4 minutes. Drain in a colander and set aside to dry (pat dry with a kitchen towel if they don't air-dry quickly—they need to be dry in order to brown evenly). Roast the potatoes. Heat the oil in a 14-inch ovenproof sauté pan over medium heat. Add the potatoes and cook without stirring until caramelized (slightly golden)—about 4 minutes. Stir in the garlic cloves. Transfer the pan to the oven and roast until the potatoes are cooked through and browned evenly—8 to 10 minutes. Season the potatoes. Remove the pan with the potatoes from the oven and add the butter and rosemary; stir until the butter is melted and well incorporated. Add the salt and pepper; taste the potatoes and add more salt or pepper if you wish. Drain on paper towels, transfer to a serving bowl, and serve.
Serves 4 to 6
Roasting Potatoes
Ellen: Knowing how to roast potatoes perfectly, so they are brown and crisp on the outside and fluffy on the inside, is a telltale sign of a good cook.
Todd: There's really not that much to it. You have to start out with a low-starch potato. When I use red bliss potatoes, I don't bother to peel them because the skins are thin and look so nice. I quarter them, blanch them in boiling water for several minutes, dry them, sauté them in hot oil to caramelize them on all sides, oven roast them, and then finish them with some butter (or olive oil) and rosemary.
Recipe: kosher, parve


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Andreessen Horowitz-backed music lyrics and annotations Rap Genius was the latest to stray over to the darker side of so-called "growth hacking," with its spammy SEO tactics disguised as an affiliate program. Called out, exposed and now punished by Google, the site's traffic has tanked. But Rap Genius, thanks in part to that $15 million investment, will probably recover. They'll clean up their links, make amends, and maybe even get back into Google's good graces. End users will once again land on Rap Genius's pages, many of them none the wiser for the time the site spent in the penalty box.
Other startups may not be as lucky.
@CJxTHEKID we're not! we're right here: http://t.co/IenRZeQkvh
— Rap Genius (@RapGenius) December 29, 2013
It's one thing to tempt fate by breaking Google's rules, it's quite another to risk alienating a service's potential end users themselves. And yet, this is today becoming far too common, especially with mobile applications. Due to the App Store's nearly impossible to break into Top Charts, app makers have to manufacture and force growth to attract their initial users, and kick off those "viral" effects.
Social Messaging Apps Are Among The Worst Offenders
We've seen this in the past with Path (which burned its users multiple times), and also earlier this year with Glide's over-eager invitation system, to name a couple of the more high-profile incidents.
Glide's variation on the SMS spam was especially ugly, because its messages weren't "try this app," but things like "you need to see this! <link>" – more of a deliberate attempt to trick users into downloads.
Glide later promised it would stop "spamming" users, but a quick look through Twitter indicates that's not quite the case. Spam, you see, is in the eye of the beholder. If it's an unwanted invitation, well, it's spam. And if it's an invitation you didn't mean to send – even if the app lets you "opt out" – well, that's spam, too.
When Experiments Go Wrong
Another company which popped up on my radar earlier this fall was Circle, which began ranking in the Top Charts despite little brand-name recognition. Apparently, this was due to some very ingenious, but also very risky experiments with its invitation system, as Valleywag pointed out earlier. (The company denies Valleywag's report, for what's it's worth.)
There are several things that make the app at least appear like it's been attempting to "growth hack" (overly quickly grow) its user base.
The company said a couple of weeks ago that it had 10 million users and is growing at 1 million news users per month, and on Android, it's listed as having 5 to 10 million installs, which pointed to the possibility that Android, which has fewer restrictions around inorganic and bot-driven growth, is its source of most installs. Circle says that's wrong though – its user base is more even at only 55% Android, 45% iOS. The Android app also has the same number of reviews as Snapchat, an app 10 times its size. Many of these have the characteristics of "bought" reviews, given they're one-liner, five-stars, in rapid succession.
Again, Circle CEO Evan Reas says that's definitely not due to Circle buying users – "we have never done that," he claims. And finally, the app also ranks highly in countries like Niger and Kenya, or more recently, Mozambique and Mongolia, which seems odd. Reas can't explain this beyond guessing that maybe Circle was featured in the country's app store.
But whether or not Circle was growth hacking through less than above-board means is almost beside the point, no matter what Valleywag claims. The problem was that one of the company's "experiments" – the term Reas prefers over the more ambiguous "growth hacks" – backfired.
The company abused SMS invitations – maybe an idea Reas picked up from Tinder? Circle had always allowed users to say "yes" or "no" to sending out its invitations, Reas says, but previously it had allowed users to invite people as many times as they wanted. That meant users could invite friends a dozen times, if they chose to do so.
And with so many app users not really understanding or carefully reading user interface components around the invitation process, users were soon massively spamming their friends to join Circle. This all occurred at once, too, after an update was pushed out and promoted, making the issue seemed even worse than it would otherwise.
And the users were angry! They responded loudly, threatening violence. See these complaints from actual tweets, for example:
"Invite me to try Circle – The Local Network one more time and i will stab your grandma," "…watch just how fast I will hunt you down," "[you'll] feel my wrath," [you're] "getting shanked," [you'll get] "dropkicked and thrown off a cliff," "get shot, no questions asked," get "a table to the face," get "stabbed in the face," "get pissed on," get "choke slammed," "get a sledgehammer to the face," lose "a tooth or three," "I'm going to have to rip my own eyes out," "flip shit," "gonna cry," "go apeshit crazy," "lose my shit," "go mad," "snap," "I will end you," "slit your throat," "punch someone," "I might break your neck," "gonna wrap a 'circle' of rope around my local neck and pull," or "hit somebody."
While I've confirmed the company never violated Twilio's terms of service, they were certainly operating in a gray area of what's socially acceptable.
"We found that with SMS invites, that quickly became annoying," says Reas, which seems like quite the understatement given the above user reaction.
"I should have thought it through," Reas now says. The company has also publicly admitted this, and is now fixing its invitation system. In the meantime, Circle pulled the invite system, and the app subsequently fell from the top of the App Store to #1473:
"You need to grow by having a great user experience," Reas says. "Don't just grow for the sake of growing…and make sure that the way you're growing not at all taking away from the great user experience," he advises other entrepreneurs, while assuring us that Circle has always been focused on the latter, despite the mistakes it made.
Of course, the pursuit of viral growth is not a new thing – many of the best companies have worked to improve user engagement, user growth and search rankings, for years. But today's startups are sometimes walking a fine line between this so-called "growth hacking," and just plain ol' hacking, consequences be damned. Or at least, consequences as risks companies are willing to take in an effort to raise funding, meet investors' expectations, or simply grow the business at a faster-than-natural clip.
After all, there's a risk in not trying to growth hack, too. (And, sometimes even black hat growth hacking can pay – you remember what Airbnb did, right?)
But growth at all costs is a gamble, and sometimes you'll lose. Rap Genius lost – at least in the short-term, though it may recover over time. However, those gambling with their users' trust are attempting the riskiest move of all. Once bitten, twice shy users don't need to give a company another chance when the App Store has over a million apps to choose from. You're always just a tap away from deletion, and you could very well growth hack your way right out of business if you're not careful.
What's worse is the more these companies play fast and loose with users' trust, the less likely users will be to give others – including those playing by the rules – a fair shot in the future. That in turn will make it even harder for apps to grow their user bases, and will force them to again turn to more aggressive tactics as the cycle repeats.
Illustration: Bryce Durbin; Glide text: Tim Vahsholtz; Circle


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The NIH is announcing its intent to publish a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) to allow revisions (competitive supplements) to add a Big Data Science track to ongoing T32 institutional training grants for the purpose of training the next generation of scientists who will develop computational and quantitative approaches and tools needed by the biomedical research community to work with biomedical Big Data. The aim of this initiative is to train a cadre of scientists who have the knowledge and skill sets in scientific disciplines relevant to Big Data Science in the biomedical sciences.
In this context, the term "Big Data" is used in the broadest sense to include biological, biomedical, behavioral, social, environmental, and clinical studies that relate to understanding health and disease. This predoctoral training initiative is different from most currently funded NIH training programs in that it will: (1) require that trainees to become proficient at the intersection of three scientific areas computer science/informatics, statistics/mathematics, and biomedical science; (2) expect active participation of training faculty from all of these three scientific disciplines who will work collaboratively across disciplines as co-mentors of trainees in Big Data Science; and (3) develop the skills required to participate in a team approach to solving data-intensive biomedical problems, while also nurturing the skills necessary to be an independent investigator in Big Data science.
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The BD2K training program initiative is being developed in response to information from three sources. First, a report from the Data and Informatics Working Group (DIWG) of the Advisory Committee to the NIH Director recommended that NIH Build Capacity by Training the Work Force in the Relevant Quantitative Sciences such as Bioinformatics, Biomathematics, Biostatistics, and Clinical Informatics (Report). Second, a Request for Information (NOT-HG-13-003; Report) was issued by the NIH to solicit input from the extramural community on what types of knowledge and skills are needed by individuals to effectively manage and utilize Big Data. Third, a workshop (Report) was held by NIH that addressed the knowledge, skills, and resources needed to organize, process, manage, analyze, and visualize large, complex data sets.
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Institutional training grants are a key component of a broader BD2K effort to train leaders who have the skills and depth of knowledge to develop new quantitative approaches and tools to maximize the value of the growing amount and complexity of biomedical Big Data. It is becoming increasingly clear that there are many new opportunities presented by the availability of multidimensional data including, but not limited to, imaging, phenotypic, molecular (including omics), clinical, behavioral, environmental, and multiple small data sets. At the same time, there are enormous challenges to computing across and integrating these data and to extracting useful biological knowledge from them. The purpose of the BD2K training program is to produce graduates who will have the required multidisciplinary skill sets to become leaders in the effort to develop new quantitative approaches and tools needed by the biomedical research community to harness the opportunities Big Data provides.
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Narrated Ibn 'Abbas:
Allah's Apostle was the most generous of all the people, and he used to reach the peak in generosity in the month of Ramadan when Gabriel met him. Gabriel used to meet him every night of Ramadan to teach him the Qur'an. Allah's Apostle was the most generous person, even more generous than the strong uncontrollable wind (in readiness and haste to do charitable deeds).


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Mesoscale Convective System over Alabama
A large mesoscale convective system (MCS) developed in western Tennessee, which then grew in size and intensity as it propagated southward across Alabama on 31 July 2012. An AWIPS image of 1-km resolution POES AVHRR 10.8 µm IR channel data (above) showed cloud top IR brightness temperatures as cold as -87º C (darker purple color enhancement). Overlaid on the image are the cumulative SPC storm reports of hail (green) and damaging winds (cyan).
GOES-13 10.7 µm IR channel images (below; click image to play animation) showed the increase in size of cold cloud tops as the MCS moved southward, with cloud top IR brightness temperatures as cold as -82º C (purple color enhancement).
A comparison of a 375-meter resolution (projected onto a 1-km AWIPS grid) VIIRS 11.45 µm IR image with the corresponding 4-km resolution GOES-13 10.7 µm IR image (below) showed the advantage of higher spatial resolution in the identification of locations of the coldest cloud tops and their magnitude (-88º C on the VIIRS image, vs -80º C on the GOES-13 image). Also note the slight northwestward shift in the location of features on the GOES-13 image, a result of parallax due to the larger viewing angle from the GOES-East satellite located at 75º West longtude.
With illumination from moonlight, the Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.7 µm Day/Night Band (DNB) can serve as a "visible channel" at night — and a comparison with the corresponding 11.45 µm IR image (below) aided in the identification of features such as overshooting tops and thunderstorm top gravity waves. Note how some city lights can be seen through the thinner edges of the MCS cirrus canopy.
This MCS produced a great deal of lightning, with over 2500 cloud-to-ground strikes in the 15-minute period preceeding the VIIRS DNB image (below). Also note the appearance of several brighter white "smeared" pixels, which indicated portions of the thunderstorm cloud top which were illuminated by lightning as the VIIRS instrument was scanning the area.
The Blended Total Precipitable Water (TPW) product (below; click image to play animation) indicated that the MCS was moving southward toward an axis of higher TPW values (50-60 mm or 2.0-2.4 inches, red to purple color enhancement).
A closer view using 10-km resolution GOES-13 sounder derived product images of TPW, Lifted Index, and Convective Available Potential Energy (below) showed that there were pockets of higher moisture and instability ahead of the advancing MCS.


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Until Tuesday, it had been 25 years since I last visited Battle Ground. Back in the day, I frequented the area as a substitute teacher. Tuesday's trip was a beer excursion. I was checking out Barrel Mountain Brewing for an upcoming review.
Battle Ground was a pretty quiet town in the old days. The population in 1990 was less than 3,800 according to Census numbers. The estimated population in 2014 was nearly 19,000. Obviously, a lot has changed. There's a growing, bustling business district now. There was nothing like that in 1990.
Barrel Mountain Brewing is a pleasing and, I'm quite sure, welcome addition to the local scene. Since opening last summer, they've built a following with a nice selection of beers and a menu I'd describe as standard-plus pub fare.
I'll have more to say about Barrel Mountain in Willamette Week's 2016 Beer Guide, which hits news stands in February. For now, it serves as an example of possibly the most positive trend of 2015, that being the trend of small breweries expanding into suburban and rural settings.
Having worked in Clark County from 1990 to 2009, I watched a few breweries come and go. But it was mostly a dead zone. Over the course of the last few years, things have turned. Residents are no longer forced to traverse the Columbia River to find good beer. They can find it closer to home.
The current trend was obviously a long time coming. For many years, you had to wonder when it would happen, if it would happen. There are a lot of underserved areas, like Battle Ground, that are starved for good beer and ready to support a brewery or breweries. Finally, it's happening.
Of course, the trend isn't strictly confined to suburban or rural areas. Many underserved boroughs in cities are also getting breweries or craft-centric pubs. What's different and especially positive is that the craft movement is spreading to suburbia and the countryside.
Some fear the US brewery count, which now exceeds 4,000, is untenable. For production breweries, there surely is a limit. But there are an almost endless number of viable locations available to small, brewpub-type operations. Expansion into these areas will likely continue in 2016.
That's the good news.
On the Other Hand
Probably the most negative aspect of the current craft beer scene is the accelerating pace of sellouts to big beer. The list for 2015 is long and includes Elysian (Washington), Four Peaks (Arizona), Golden Road, Ballast Point and Lagunitas (California), and Breckenridge (Colorado),
No one I know expects the pace of acquisitions to slow. Big beer market share is plummeting. Craft beer market share is growing. Big beer recognizes that tasteless, mass market lagers don't have a bright future. So they're investing in the guys they can't beat.
I have to admit being less bothered by the buyouts, which I expect, than by the reaction to them by some in the industry. There are those who see the buyouts as nothing more than some sort of natural progression in which big beer embraces craft beer as it's own and moves on.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Big beer, particularly Anheuser-Busch, is buying craft brands so it can use them to leverage its position. They want to blur the perception of what craft beer is and squeeze market access via vertical integration wherever possible, to the detriment of independent craft brewers.
I'm truly astounded when I hear people praising what the acquired breweries are doing. "Look at all the creative beers they're brewing." It doesn't matter in the least. These breweries enjoy significant advantages over independent craft brewers. It isn't close to an even playing field.
As noted, I fully expect the buyouts to continue. What I'd like to see in 2016 is more widespread recognition of what the buyouts mean for the industry as we've known it. I doubt it will happen, but I can always hope.
There's every reason to believe 2016 will be another highly interesting, entertaining year in beer. I look forward to watching it unfold. Happy New Year to all!


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I have an Army of unfortunate Scottish 'Lasses in Waiting' for a photograph of their grave.
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PARK, Mary M - BRCS ..Aberdeen City, Cem. Grave Unspecified died 7.8.1942
McLENNAN, Mary - ATS ..Aberdeen. Grove Cemetery ..Grave 291
MARNOCH, Margaret - TFNS-(WWI)..Aberdeen. Kintore Parish Chyd......639
FRASER, Christina - WAAF ...Aberdeen. Trinity Cemetery .Sec.Q. Grave 311
ROBERTSON, Violet - WRNS ...........Allenvale Cem. Aberdeen .Sec.Y. Gr.106
ROSS, Isabella - ATS ..St. Peter Cemetery Sec.12. W.Div. Gr.17
GRAY, Mary - ATS ....Fyvie Parish Churchyard ...Grave 232
THOMSON, Elizabeth - QAIMNS..........Huntly Cemetery Sec.P. Gr. 1700
WILLOX, Margaret - ATS ..Midmar New Cemetery .Grave 273
WILSON, Annie - QARNNS (WWI). Monemusk Parish Churchyard .1131
NAPIER, Josephine - WAAF .....New Deer Cemetery ..Sec.C..924
WILKINSON, Phyllis QARNNS ..New Machar Cemetery .Grave 1175
McCOMBIE, Christian - TFNS (WWI) New Pisligo Parish Churchyard .4.14.B
McBEATH, Alice - WAAF .Old Deer Cemetery Sec.4. Row.A. Gr.G
ANDERSON, Jeannie - ATS ONeil Burial Ground, Kincardine Sec.A.2. Grave 91
JINKS, Mary - TFNS (WWI) Peterculter Parish Churchyard 62
SMITH, Helen - ATS St. Mary Episcopal Chyd. Inverurie...F.5
WYNESS, Mary - WAAF United Free Chyd Lumphanan ..Grave 101
BAXTER, Kathleen - WAAF ..Turriff Cemetery Comp.15. Sec.W. Gr.54
CLUNIE, Jeanie - ATS Dundee, Balgay Cemetery Sec.L. Grave 85
GARTHLY, Elizabeth - ATS .. Dundee, Balgay Cemetery ..Sec. M.M. Grave 151
WALLACE,Annie ATS Dundee, Balgay Cemetery ...Sec. G.G. Grave 118
DICK,Ann WAAF Dundee Eastern Necropolis . ..Sec,X.D. Grave 771
MITCHELL, Ruth - ATS Dundee Eastern Necropolis .Sec. L.L. Grave 194
PYOTT, Margaret - ATS Dundee Eastern Necropolis .Sec. X.E. Grave 574
CLARK, Alice - ATS ..Sleepyhillock Cem. Montrose Sec.1 CLA. Grave 273
MACAULAY, Betty - WRNS .Dunoon Cemetery ..Sec.39. Grave 65
PATTERSON, Catherine - WAAF ...Kilchattan Old Chyd Colonsay & Oronsay .. S.W.Corner
MOLLOY, Mary - WRNS .Pennyfuir Cemetery, Oban .Sec.1. Grave 207
KERR, Mary - TFNS (WWI) Ardrossan Cemetery S.A.18
CAMPBELL, Annie - WRNS Ayr Cemetery ..Sec.K. 1906 Div. Gr. 4013
STEVENSON, Mary - BRCS Ayr Cemetery .. Sec.11. 1931 Div. Gr. 3560
THOMSON, Ellen - QMAAC (WWI) ..Ayr Cemetery ..J 3515
McLAUCHLAN, Margaret - ATS . Ayr Cemetery . Sec. T. 1931 Div. Gr. 3161
TAIT, Annie - ATS .Ayr Cemetery ..Sec. P. 1931 Div. Gr. 1733
HARKNESS, Elizabeth - QAIMNS (WWI).Crisshill Cemetery .Sec.C. Lair 354
MAIR, Elizabeth - WRNS Darvel New Cemetery ..Sec.A. Grave 171-172
MARSHALL, Janet - WAAF Kilbirnie Burial Ground Sec.E. Grave 1624
LAWRIE, Isabella - ATS ...Kilbirnie Burial Ground Sec.F. Grave 395
LAWRIE, Jane - ATS Kilmarnock Cemetery ...Sec.S. Grave 2847
McINTYRE, Mary BEM - ATS .Kilmaurs Cemetery ...Sec.F. 259
OOSEMORE, Ruth - ATS Monkton & Prestwick Cemetery ..K.1..Grave 7
HOSIE, Anne - WRNS Banff Cemetery 1st Compt. Sec.H. Grave 50
BRAND, Helen - WAAF . .Broomhill Cemetery, Keith Sec. B. Grave 28
SMITH, Ethel - ATS .Broomhill Cemetery, Keith Sec. P. Grave 18
COWIE, Mary - WRNS .Burnside Cemetery, Rathven ...Sec. D. Grave 83
FORBES, Agnes - ATS .Portsoy Cemetery Sec. F. Grave 26
CURRIE, Fay - WAAF ..Eastlands Cemetery, Galashiels..Sec. O.5. Grave 23
CROSSLEY, Mary - ATS Kilmory Churchyard .Grave 271
JACK, Christina ARRC - QAIMNS (WWI) ...Mount Vernon Cemetery, Thurso.. Grave H222
McKIE, Loui - WAAF ...Closeburn Cemetery Sec.A. Grave 45
WILSON, Annie - ATS ..Dumbarton Cemetery Sec. B. Ext.3 Bank 58. Gr.16
FEE, Martha ATS Helensburgh Cemetery ..Sec. N. Walk 7. Grave 1
BURLEIGH, Violet ATS Comely Bank Cemetery ..Coll. Grave D.76
MILLER, Hilda ATS ..Comely Bank Cemetery ...Grave D. 77
NEIL, Robina, - ATS .Comely Bank Cemetery .. Grave D.76
TEASDALE, Elvera ATS ...Comely Bank Cemetery ...Coll. Grave D.76
SMITH, Fanny - WRAF (WWI) ..Comely Bank Cemetery K 248
JAMEISON, Jessie - TFNS (WWI) ..Dalry Cemetery .Grave R 339
WRIGHT, Elsie QMAAC (WWI) . Eastern Cemetery ..Grave F.756
MURDOCH, Margaret ATS Eastern Cemetery ..Sec. F. Grave 1030
LEWIS, Sybil Civilian (WWI)........................... Edinburgh Crematorium ashes in Old St Pauls Church
HARLEY, Mary WAAF ..Mount Vernon R.C. Cemetery ..Soc. O. Grave 255
EGAN, Agnes WRNS ..Mount Vernon R.C. Cemetery ..Sec. D. Grave 271
OBRIEN, Annie WAAF .Mount Vernon R.C. Cemetery ..Sec. O. Grave 111
BORROW, Dorothy ATS Newington of Echo Bank Cem ..Sec. G.1. Grave 686
HENDERSON, Mrs Barbara QMAAC (WWI)..North Merchiston Cemetery ...Grave G.155
CAMPBELL, Jeannie WAAF . Piershill Cemetery ..Sec. W. Grave 772
McKINLAY, Ann ATS Rosebank Cemetery ...Sec. V.W. Grave 34
THOMPSON, Elizabeth QAIMNS (WWI) .Rosebank Cemetery S. E/160
MATHESON, Sophia ATS ..Saughton Cemetery .Sec. L. Grave 182
McNEIL, Helen WRNS ... Seafield Crematorium .Panel 1
SULTER, Isabella WAAF Seafield Crematorium .Panel 2
MARTIN, Marjorie QMAAC (WWI) ..Warriston Cemetery K 150
DONALDSON, Queenie ATS ..Warriston Crematorium ...Panel 1
CRUDEN, Gwendoline WRNS Warriston Crematorium ...Panel 1
GOODDRIDGE, Mary ATS .Warriston Crematorium ...Panel 2
HOGG, Thomasena ATS ...Warriston Crematorium ...Panel 2
PENNY, Beatrice ATS ..Warriston Crematorium ...Panel 3
LINDSAY, Mary ATS Ceres Cemetery, Fife . Sec. O. Gave 25
McCORMACK, Sheila WRNS ..Crail Cemetery Sec. G. Grave 6
MACKIE, Jane ATS ...Ballingry Cemetery .Sec. J. Grave 362
NELSON, Elizabeth WAAF ...Bennochy Cemetery, Kirkaldy Sec. Q. Grave 230
SMITH, Catherine WRNS ..Cupar New Cemetery ...Sec. A. Grave 165
DOBSON, Margaret WRNS ...Douglas Bank Cemetery, Dunfermline.. Sec. A. Grave 1
McBURNEY, Jean WRNS .Douglas Bank Cemetery, Dunfermline.. Sec. A. Grave 258
ASHBURNER, Joan WRNS ...Douglas Bank Cemetery, Dunfermline.. Sec. A. Grave 294
BATCHELOR, Margaret WRNS Douglas Bank Cemetery, Dunfermline.. Sec. A. Grave 295
BOWMAN, Ann - ATS ..Dunfermline Cemetery ..Sec. P. Grave 161
GILLIES, Margaret WRNS .East Wemyss Cemetery .Sec. C.C. Grave 91. North & Middle
HYND, Isabella WRNS ...East Wemyss Cemetery .Sec. U.U. Grave 85. Middle
WHITE, Euphemia ATS ..East Wemyss Cemetery .Sec. G. Grave 82. Middle
DEAS, Elizabeth WAAF ..Inverkeithing Cemetery .North Sec. Grave 122
DEMSTER, Elizabeth WAAF ..Scoonie Cemetery ..Compt.27. Grave 619
MacDONALD-MURRAY ATS ...St. Andrews Western Cemetery .Sec. G. Grave 274
CAMPBELL, Annie ATS . Tolcross Central Churchyard ..Sec. C. Grave 48
DONALD, Margaret ATS .Craigton Cemetery ..Sec. 1.1. Grave 1449
DUFFY, Theresa ATS ...Craigton Cemetery . .Sec. H.H. Grave 1931
HUTCHEON, Doreen ATS Craigton Cemetery .Sec. L. Grave 71
MUNRO, Margaret WAAF Craigton Cemetery .Sec. E. Grave 227
JOHNSTON, Helen ATS Eastwood Cemetery ...Sec. D. New Part Grave 359
FORGIE, Margaret WRNS ..Eastwood Cemetery . .Sec. H. New Part. Grave 387
McLINTOCK, Agnes ATS .Eastwood Cemetery ...Sec. K. New Part. Grave 121
SCOTT, Mary ATS .Eastwood Cemetery ...Sec. K. New Part. Grave 569
QUINN, Mary WAAF .St. Kentigerns R.C. Cemetery ..Sec. 12. Grave 735
GRANT, Jessie QMAAC (WWI) Alvie Parish Churchyard ..S.E. Corner
MacDONALD, Mary ATS ...St. Finnans Isle Burial Ground Com War Dead
INKSTER, Christine WAAF Tomnahurich Cemetery, Inverness...Sec. D. Class 4. Grave 10
MacINNES, Joan ATS ..Sleat Parish Churchyard Row 1, S. Extn. Grave 11
CARLING, Mary WAAF .Kinross North Burial Ground .Grave 464
MELDRUM, Janet ATS ...Kinross North Burial Ground .Grave 436
JOHNSTON, Margaret WRNS Airbles Cemetery, Dallziel ..Sec. G. Grave 785
McCULLOCH, Joan WRNS Airbles Cemetery, Dallziel ..Sec. G. Grave 302
SMILLIE, Margaret WAAF ..Kirk of Shotts Cemetery .Sec. C. N. Part. Jt. Grave 250
SMILLIE, Mary WAAF Kirk of Shotts Cemetery .Sec. C. N. Part. Jt. Grave 250
KIRK, Jean WRNS Kirk of Shotts Cemetery .Sec. E. Grave 354
MITCHELL, Elizabeth WAAF ..St. Josephs R.C. Cemetery, Airdrie..Sec. Z. Grave 1584
MANN, Annie = ATS ...St. Marys R.C. Cemetery, Lanark .St. Ninians Div. Grave 54
TANNAHILL, Agnes ATS Westburn Cemetery, Cambuslang ..Grave 6292
JOHNSTONE, Agnes ATS Dunbar Cemetery Sec. A. Grave 33
SOUTER, Euphemia WAAF .North Berwick Cemetery Sec. D. Grave 1513
MACKINTOSH, Annie WRNS .Trancent New Cemetery .Sec. F. Grave 2205
MORRISON, Dorothy ATS Dalmeny & Queensferry Cemetery Grave 1509
RITCHIE, Elizabeth ATS Fauldhouse Cemetery .Plot H. 264
SWARBRICK, Jane WAAF Fauldhouse Cemetery .Plot A. 246
CANNON, Hannah ATS .Uphall Cemetery .Sec. G.G. Grave 15
SIMPSON, Hannah TFNS (WWI) ..Uphall Cemetery .J 33
GIBSON, Isabella ATS Crichton Parish Churchyard ..Grave 73
SMITH, Jessie QAIMNS .Dalkeith New Cemetery ..Sec. I. Grave 148
LAIDLAW, Margaret WAAF ..Dalkeith New Cemetery .Sec. M. Grave 4
INNES, Helen - ATS ..Glencourse New Cemetery .Grave F.70
OLIVER, Isabella ATS .Stow Cemetery . ..Grave 6
TIERNEY, Mary WRNS ..West Calder Cemetery Sec. R. Lair 36
OKEEFE. Sarah WRNS (WWI).....................................West Calder Cemetery D.201
GRANT. Ella ATS Rothes Old Churchyard ..Old Part Grave 3
STEWART, Kathleen QAIMNS (WWI) .Blair Atholl Parish Churchyard ...Unidentified
ROSS, Elizabeth WAAF ..Blair Atholl Parish Churchyard Grave 343
STALKER, Margaret QAIMNS (WWI) ..Comrie Cemetery .4073
STALKER, Lucy ATS ..Crieff Cemetery Old Ground. Grave 48B
McROBBIE, Jessie QAIMNS (WWI) ..Crieff Cemetery Old Ground Grave 547A
WATSON, Mary QAIMNS (WWI) ..Crieff Cemetery Old Ground Grave 460A
ATWOOD, Helen WAAF ..Kinclaven Parish Churchyard ..Grave 18B
TAIT, Ianah ATS ....Methven Cemetery ..Grave 219
MacBETH, Margaret QAIMNS (WWI) Pitlochry New Cemetery .Grave 126
EDWARDS, Lilian WAAF Scone Cemetery ...Sec. F. Grave 60
BALLANTYNE, Sheila ATS Wellshill Cemetery, Perth .Sec. K. Parochial.2.Div. Grave 31
CASSIDY, Ethel WAAF ...Wellshill Cemetery, Perth .Wellshill Div. Grave 565
CLARK, Louise ATS .Wellshill Cemetery, Perth Sec.!. Jeanfield Div. Grave 502
DUFF, Agnes ATS .Wellshill Cemetery, Perth .Sec.G.Jeanfield Div. Grave 543
GRASSIE, Helen ATS ...Wellshill Cemetery, Perth .Sec.G. Parochial.2 Div. Grave 62
MacLEOD, Catherine ATS Wellshill Cemetery, Perth ..Sec. B. Jeanfield Div. Grave 857A
ROBERTS, Nan WAAF .Wellshill Cemetery, Perth ..Sec. K. Parochial Div. Grave 454
STOBIE, Mary ATS Wellshill Cemetery, Perth ..Sec A. Parochial 2. Div. Grave 13
THOMPSON, Martha ATS .Arkleston Cemetery Sec. J. Row K.. Grave 92
HOUSTON, Eileen ATS .Arkleston Cemetery Sec. K. Row P. Grave 43
IRVINE, Margaret P.M.RAF N.S, ..Castlewood Cemetery, Jedburgh 2nd Extn. Grave 338
LEDINGHAM, Isabella ATS .Cathcart Cemetery ...Comp.2E. Linn Extn. Grave 502
MACHLACHAN, Mary WRNS .Gourock Cemetery ..Sec. 18. Grave 181
FORBES, Elizabeth - ATS .Gourock Cemetery ..Sec. N.N.N. Grave 571
McLAUGHLIN, Hellen ATS ..Gourock Cemetery ..Special Memorial
MOODY, Jessie ATS ..Greenock Cemetery Sec .A.A.A. Grave139
MELDRUM, Isabel TFNS (WWI) .Greenock Cemetery P.76A
MONTGOMERY, Margaret WAAF ...Hawkhead Cemetery ..Sec. C. Grave 1105B
VAUX, Christina ATS .Hawkhead Cemetery ..Sec. P. Grave 135G
GANNON, Kathleen ATS Port Glasgow Cemetery .Sec. q. Row 8. Grave 84
MacDONALD, Catherine WRNS St. Convals R.C. Cemetery, Barrhead.. Sec. 1. Grave 1360
HALTON, Margaret ATS St. Convals R.C. Cemetery. Barrhead Sec.1. Jt. Grave 1109
ASPIN, Jean WRNS .Woodside Crematorium, Paisley Panel 1
MACKINTOSH, Christina ATS ..Fodderty Old Churchyard ...Sec. C. Grave 234
MacASKILL, Mary WAAF .Kincardine Cemetery ..Grave 166
CRAMB, Elizabeth WAAF .St. Duthus Cemetery, Tain ..Sec. F. Grave 45
CHILDS, Flora WAAF Kelso Cemetery ..Comp. G. Grave 343
ROBERTSON, Barbara WAAF ..Morebattle Burial Ground ...Grave 99
GIBSON, Agnes ATS .Shawfield Cemetery, Selkirk ...Sec. H. Grave 2009
MacKENZIE, Isabella QAIMNS (WWI) ..Melness Cemetery, Tongue .Com War Dead
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Monica Grose's headstone is in my thread for Old Dyce...
La a' Blair 's Math na Cairdean
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Cheers F.T.
Obviously missed that one, Grateful
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PM'd you a few days back re Ruth Mitchell who is on the former Victoria Street Church Memorial, Dundee;
Do you have any more detail regarding her?
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Will try and get you the Blair Atholl & Pitlochry ladies when back at work. Intend to do cemeteries in the fullness of time but mostly war memorials first.
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Sending you:
Mary Quinn, St. Kentigern's Cemetery
Bessie Hunter, Tillicoultry Cemetery
Annie Munro, Western Necropolis
I'll have a rake for Annie Campbell, the Tollcross lady, but I think she was amongst those I was never able to find.
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dhubthaigh wrote:
PM'd you a few days back re Ruth Mitchell who is on the former Victoria Street Church Memorial, Dundee;
Do you have any more detail regarding her?
Sorry Mark
Just checked my PMs and nothing there from you; Looks like the Gremlins have been at work.
Will have a check and come back to you.
Received Hunter and Munro, most grateful, couple more off the list
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Sorry Anne
Should have aded Quinn to my last reply
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I can help with the Ayr graves. I live but 2 miles away. Is it photographs you need?
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Yes please- grave photos. shall I pm my email add?
Regards, Tony
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The two East Kilbride Lassies are listed under East Kilbride, Lanarkshire.
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Thanks John
Found them, most grateful
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I have a picture of the stone of Agnes Wilson in Kilwinning cemetary, would you like a copy?
I'm not sure how to post?
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This has also been posted in the Ayrshire section, Irvine Old Parish Church.
McDOWELL, MARION WHITE
Rank: Corporal
Service No: 2040839
Date of Death: 26/11/1943
Regiment/Service: Women's Auxiliary Air Force
Grave Reference
Cemetery: IRVINE OLD PARISH CHURCHYARD
Additional Information:
Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Elliot, of Irvine.
Wife of Gdsmn. James Alexander McDowell, Scots Guards, killed in action in Italy, 6th July, 1944.
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kilwincameronian wrote:
I have a picture of the stone of Agnes Wilson in Kilwinning cemetary, would you like a copy?
I'm not sure how to post?
Kilwin... will PM my email
Thanks. well done!
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The White House
February 17, 2009
Remarks by the President and Vice President at Signing of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
For Immediate Release February 17, 2009
Denver Museum of Nature and Science
Denver, Colorado
Denver Museum of Nature and Science
Denver, Colorado
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Governor, thank you. Governor, thank you very much. It's a genuine honor. It's an honor to be here with the President. And my name is Joe Biden. I used to work for -- I used to work for Ken Salazar -- (laughter) -- in the United States Senate. And it's good to see you here, Ken. I guess you got -- you're going to hitch a ride home with me, right?
He rode out on the big plane. He's going back on the little one. And I also want to acknowledge Senator Michael Bennett, who I had an opportunity to meet. (Applause.) And Congresswoman DeGette is here, as well. There she is. And Mayor Hickenlooper, I want you to know how much we appreciate the hospitality. And also, I believe Congressman Perlmutter was at the -- there you are, Congressman. I wasn't sure you were -- he greeted us when we got off the plane. (Applause.)
Mr. President, it's a slight diversion, but I think we got to be nice to him. The Chairman of the Finance Committee, Max Baucus, is here. (Laughter.) And so we got to make sure -- Max, just remember, when we call, I call, just say "Yes, Joe," okay? (Laughter.) All kidding aside, thanks for your great help in this, Max.
You know, you don't need to be an economist to know that jobs are the engine of our economy. And without jobs, people can't earn. And when people can't earn, they can't spend. And if they don't spend, it means more jobs get lost. It's a vicious cycle. And that's the vicious cycle we're in today. And it's one of the reasons that this bill is so desperately needed. We have to reverse that cycle.
But everyone knows that jobs are more than just about a job. They're about dignity. They're about respect. They're about being able to get up in the morning, look your child in the eye and say, "Everything is going to be okay; everything is going to be okay."
Last year -- last year our economy lost 3 million jobs; 600,000 more just this last month. There are an awful lot of mothers and father who had to walk up those stairs to the bedroom of their children and tell them that, "I'm out of work, honey. We may not be able to stay here. You may not be able to stay in this school. It's a tough, tough conversation. And many -- too many times it's already occurred in this country. We're here today -- we're here today to start to turn that around. (Applause.)
But folks, we're not just going to help the economy recover. We're going to start building the economy for the future. I'm particularly pleased that this bill includes investments in areas I've worked my whole political career. Thanks to the Recovery Act, thousands of additional police officers will go on the streets of America, and hundreds and hundreds of fire stations will be built, making the people of Denver and every other city in America safer.
Thanks to this act, we're going to see an unprecedented investment in improving America's rail system coast to coast. (Applause.) In Denver -- right here in Denver, your light rail will be affected all the way to the Northeast Corridor where I come from. We should have the best transportation system in the world. (Applause.) And we don't.
But ladies and gentleman, it's not only that this will help create jobs in the rail sector -- it's also good for the environment. So there's a double bang for the buck in a number of the investments we're making in this legislation.
Starting today, our administration will be working day and night to provide more aid for the unemployed, create immediate jobs, building our roads and our bridges, make long-term investments in a smarter energy grid, and so much more. And as we turn the economy around, we've got to make sure of one more thing. Last time an economic recovery occurred after a deep recession, the middle class got left behind -- the middle class got left behind. And that's why the President has set up a White House Council on the Task Force on the Middle Class, which he's asking me to chair.
So as we go through this process, we're also going to make sure that America is -- as we recover, that American middle class is not left behind. But before we start on the way, there is much more to be done in the weeks to come. I want to say something about what got us to this point. I remember having the meetings of the transition team with President-Elect Obama and Vice President-Elect Biden in Chicago, and meeting in those offices knowing we were about to inherit a very, very bad economic situation.
And we started to put together the President's leadership, the blueprint for our recovery. Faced with a swirl of options and uncertainties, then-President-Elect Obama was as clear and as firm then as he is today about what is needed. He said, and I quote: "We have to be bold… we have to act fast… and we have to think of the future that we wish to build." Well, I believe that's what the President delivered. He never lost sight of those goals that he set back in November and December of last year.
Over the weeks that followed, I watched him reach out, asking senator and congressmen from both parties to put the good of the nation above the disagreement over one particular of this significant package.
The President showed a willingness to compromise on specifics, but he never compromised on the principles he set out in that room in Chicago back in November. And so, folks, he showed a willingness to work with others to get things done, but he never bent in his determination to put us on a road to recovery and reinvestment.
So today, less than a month -- think of this, less than a month into his presidency, the President is about to sign into law what is I believe a landmark achievement. Because of what he did, America can take a first, very strong step leading us out of this very difficult road to recovery we find ourselves on.
So on behalf of our country and its people, Mr. President, let me presume to say, thank you. We owe you a great deal. (Applause.)
To introduce the President, it's my pleasure to introduce Blake Jones, President of, now, Namaste -- I told him if I didn't say it right, he could call me "Biddin" -- (laughter) -- but Namaste Solar. In four years, this company has grown from three people to 60 owner-employees, and have become one of the leading installers of photoelectric panels here in the state of Colorado. And I expect they have ambitions to go beyond that, and I hope they succeed.
In fact, Bill Ritter isn't just the governor, he's a customer. Namaste installed, as he mentioned, the solar panels on the governor's mansion. And despite Namaste's success, without the Recovery and Reinvestment Bill that the President is about to sign, I think your President would tell you he was a little worried he might have to take other action in spite of all the progress that had been made -- that may have included layoffs.
But with this bill -- with this bill, he's going to be looking to hire -- not fire, hire. And that's the difference between -- that this investment is going to make and why we're so happy to be here today.
* * * *
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, everybody. Please have a seat. You guys can sit down, too. (Laughter.)
Let me begin by saying thank you to a few people -- first of all, your outstanding Governor, Bill Ritter. Please give Bill a big round of applause. (Applause.) Lieutenant Governor Barbara O'Brien. (Applause.) Secretary of State Bernie Buescher. (Applause.) Your outstanding Mayor, John Hickenlooper. (Applause.) Your new Senator, Michael Bennett. (Applause.) Your old senator, now my Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar. (Applause.) Mark Udall is not here, but give him a round of applause anyway. (Applause.)
One of the outstanding leaders who helped shepherd this process through in record time -- please give Max Baucus of Montana a big round of applause. Thank you, Max. (Applause.) To Secretary Federico Pena, one of my national co-chairs -- I would not be here if it were not for Federico. Thank you. (Applause.) To Representative Diana DeGette, who is a -- we are in her district. So, thank you so much. (Applause.) Representative Betsy Markey. (Applause.) Representative Jared Polis. (Applause.) Representative Ed Perlmutter. (Applause.)
To all the other elected officials and outstanding leaders who are here. And to the whole Namaste family and Mr. Jones for outstanding work, congratulations. Give them a big round of applause. (Applause.) And to the best Vice President that we've had in a long time -- Joe Biden. (Applause.)
It is great to be back in Denver. (Applause.) I was here last summer -- we had a good time -- (laughter) -- to accept the nomination of my party and to make a promise to people of all parties that I would do all that I could to give every American the chance to make of their lives what they will; to see their children climb higher than they did. And I'm back today to say that we have begun the difficult work of keeping that promise. We have begun the essential work of keeping the American Dream alive in our time. And that's why we're here today. (Applause.)
Now, I don't want to pretend that today marks the end of our economic problems. Nor does it constitute all of what we're going to have to do to turn our economy around. But today does mark the beginning of the end -- the beginning of what we need to do to create jobs for Americans scrambling in the wake of layoffs; the beginning of what we need to do to provide relief for families worried they won't be able to pay next month's bills; the beginning of the first steps to set our economy on a firmer foundation, paving the way to long-term growth and prosperity.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act that I will sign today -- a plan that meets the principles I laid out in January -- is the most sweeping economic recovery package in our history. It's the product of broad consultation and the recipient of broad support -- from business leaders, unions, public interest groups, from the Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers, as well as the AFL-CIO. (Applause.) From Democrats and Republicans, mayors as well as governors. It's a rare thing in Washington for people with such diverse and different viewpoints to come together and support the same bill. And on behalf of our nation, I want to thank all of them for it, including your two outstanding Senators, Michael Bennett and Mark Udall, as well as all the members of your congressional delegation. They did an outstanding job and they deserve a big round of applause. (Applause.)
I also want to thank Joe Biden for working behind the scenes from the very start to make this recovery act possible. I want to thank Speaker Pelosi and Harry Reid for acting so quickly and for proving that Congress could step up to this challenge.
I have special thanks to Max Baucus, who's the Chairman of the Finance Committee. Without Max, none of this would have happened. He had to work overtime, and push his committee to work overtime. And I want to thank all the committee chairs and members of Congress for coming up with a plan that is both bold and balanced enough to meet the demands of this moment. The American people were looking to them for leadership, and that's what they provided.
Now, what makes this recovery plan so important is not just that it will create or save 3.5 million jobs over the next two years, including 60,000-plus here in Colorado. It's that we're putting Americans to work doing the work that America needs done –- (applause) -- in critical areas that have been neglected for too long; work that will bring real and lasting change for generations to come.
Because we know we can't build our economic future on the transportation and information networks of the past, we are remaking the American landscape with the largest new investment in our nation's infrastructure since Eisenhower built an Interstate Highway System in the 1950s. (Applause.) Because of this investment, nearly 400,000 men and women will go to work rebuilding our crumbling roads and bridges, repairing our faulty dams and levees, bringing critical broadband connections to businesses and homes in nearly every community in America, upgrading mass transit, building high-speed rail lines that will improve travel and commerce throughout our nation.
Because we know America can't out-compete the world tomorrow if our children are being out-educated today, we're making the largest investment in education in our nation's history. (Applause.) It's an investment that will create jobs building 21st century classrooms and libraries and labs for millions of children across America. It will provide funds to train a new generation of math and science teachers, while giving aid to states and school districts to stop teachers from being laid off and education programs from being cut.
In a place like New York City, 14,000 teachers who were set to be let go may now be able to continue pursuing their critical mission. It's an investment that will create a new $2,500 annual tax credit to put the dream of a college degree within reach for middle-class families and make college affordable for 7 million students -- (applause) -- helping more of our sons and daughters aim higher, reach further, fulfill their God-given potential. (Applause.)
Because we know that spiraling health care costs are crushing families and businesses alike, we're taking the most meaningful steps in years towards modernizing our health care system. It's an investment that will take the long overdue step of computerizing America's medical records to reduce the duplication and waste that costs billions of health care dollars, and medical errors that cost thousands of lives each year.
Further, thanks to the actions we've taken, 7 million Americans who lost their health care along the way will continue to get the coverage they need, and roughly 20 million more Americans can breathe a little easier knowing that their health care won't be cut due to a state budget shortfall. And a historic commitment to wellness initiatives will keep millions of Americans from setting foot in the doctor's office in the first place -- because these are preventable diseases and we're going to invest in prevention. (Applause.)
So taken together with the enactment earlier this month of a long-delayed law to extend health care to millions more children of working families -- (applause) -- we have done more in 30 days to advance the cause of health care reform than this country has done in an entire decade. And that's something we should be proud of. (Applause.)
Because we know we can't power America's future on energy that's controlled by foreign dictators, we are taking big steps down the road to energy independence, laying the groundwork for new green energy economies that can create countless well-paying jobs. It's an investment that will double the amount of renewable energy produced over the next three years. Think about that -- double the amount of renewable energy in three years. (Applause.) Provide tax credits and loan guarantees to companies like Namaste, a company that will be expanding, instead of laying people off, as a result of the plan that I'm about to sign.
And in the process, we will transform the way we use energy. Today, the electricity we use is carried along a grid of lines and wires that date back to Thomas Edison -- a grid that can't support the demands of this economy. This means we're using 19th and 20th century technologies to battle 21st century problems like climate change and energy security. It also means that places like North Dakota can -- that can produce a lot of wind energy can't deliver it to communities that want it, leading to a gap between how much clean energy we are using and how much we could be using.
The investment we're making today will create a newer, smarter electric grid that will allow for broader use of alternative energy. We will build on the work that's being done in places like Boulder -- a community that's on its -- that's on pace to be the world's first Smart Grid city. (Applause.) This investment will place Smart Meters in homes to make our energy bills lower, make outages less likely, and make it easier to use clean energy. It's an investment that will save taxpayers over $1 billion by slashing energy costs in our federal buildings by 25 percent; save working families hundreds of dollars a year on their energy bills by weatherizing over 1 million homes. And it's an investment that takes the important first step towards a national transmission superhighway that will connect our cities to the windy plains of the Dakotas and the sunny deserts of the Southwest.
Even beyond energy, from the National Institutes of Health to the National Science Foundation, this recovery act represents the biggest increase in basic research funding in the long history of America's noble endeavor to better understand our world. And just as President Kennedy sparked an explosion of innovation when he set America's sights on the moon, I hope this investment will ignite our imagination once more, spurring new discoveries and breakthroughs in science, in medicine, in energy, to make our economy stronger and our nation more secure and our planet safer for our children.
Now, while this package is composed mostly of critical investments, it also includes aid to state and local governments to prevent layoffs of firefighters or police recruits in -- (applause) -- recruits like the ones in Columbus, Ohio, who were told that instead of being sworn in as officers, they were about to be let go. It includes help for those hardest hit by our economic crisis like the nearly 18 million Americans who will get larger unemployment checks in the mail. About a third of this package comes in the forms of tax cuts -- by the way, the most progressive in our history -- (applause) -- not only spurring job creation, but putting money in the pockets of 95 percent of hardworking families in America. (Applause.) So unlike the tax cuts that we've seen in recent years, the vast majority of these tax benefits will go not to the wealthiest Americans, but to the middle class -- (applause) -- with those workers who make the least benefiting the most.
And it's a plan that rewards responsibility, lifting two million Americans from poverty by ensuring that anyone who works hard does not have to raise a child below the poverty line. So as a whole, this plan will help poor and working Americans pull themselves into the middle class in a way we haven't seen in nearly 50 years.
What I'm signing, then, is a balanced plan with a mix of tax cuts and investments. It's a plan that's been put together without earmarks or the usual pork barrel spending. It's a plan that will be implemented with an unprecedented level of transparency and accountability.
With a recovery package of this size comes a responsibility to assure every taxpayer that we are being careful with the money they work so hard to earn. And that's why I'm assigning a team of managers to ensure that the precious dollars we've invested are being spent wisely and well. We will -- (applause) -- Governor Ritter, Mayor Hickenlooper, we're going to hold governors and local officials who receive the money to the same high standard. And we expect you, the American people, to hold us accountable for the results. And that's why we've created Recovery.gov -- a web site so that every American can go online and see how this money is being spent and what kind of job is being created, where those jobs are being created. We want transparency and accountability throughout this process. (Applause.)
Now, as important as the step we take today is, this legislation represents only the first part of the broad strategy we need to address our economic crisis. In the coming days and weeks, I'll be launching other aspects of the plan. We will need to stabilize, repair, and reform our banking system, and get credit flowing again to families and businesses. We will need to end the culture where we ignore problems until they become full-blown crises instead of recognizing that the only way to build a thriving economy is to set and enforce firm rules of the road.
We must stem the spread of foreclosures and falling home values for all Americans, and do everything we can to help responsible homeowners stay in their homes -- something I'll talk more about tomorrow. And we will need to do everything in the short term to get our economy moving again, while at the same time recognizing that we have inherited a trillion-dollar deficit, and we need to begin restoring fiscal discipline and taming our exploding deficits over the long term.
None of this will be easy. The road to recovery will not be straight. We will make progress and there may be some slippage along the way. It will demand courage and discipline. It will demand a new sense of responsibility that's been missing from Wall Street all the way to Washington. There will be hazards and reverses. But I have every confidence that if we are willing to continue doing the critical work that must be done -- by each of us, by all of us -- then we will leave this struggling economy behind us, and come out on the other side, more prosperous as a people.
For our American story is not -- and has never been -- about things coming easy. It's about rising to the moment when the moment is hard, and converting crisis into opportunity, and seeing to it that we emerge from whatever trials we face stronger than we were before. It's about rejecting the notion that our fate is somehow written for us, and instead laying claim to a destiny of our own making. That's what earlier generations of Americans have done, that's what we owe our children, that's what we are doing today.
Thank you, Colorado. Let's get to work. Thank you. (Applause.)